Word Origin & History

shout c.1300, schowten "to call or cry out loudly," of unknown origin; perhaps from the root of shoot, on the notion of "throw the voice out loudly," or related to O.N. skuta "a taunt." The noun is first recorded late 14c.

Example Sentences for shout

No ring of the axe, no shout of the driver, no fall of the tree broke the silence.

The whistle and the shout from the steamer were the first intimations we had that anything was wrong.

The morbidly gloomy one moment often shout madly on the next.

No, I will shout, Until the gods through heaven's blue look out!

Jack set up a shout, but apparently, in the excitement of racing for the floating stern part of the Oriana, he was unnoticed.

The murmur now and then rose into a shout, and the shout into a roar.

With a shout of warning, he jumped and ran toward the stopped train, yelling at the engineer for God's sake to pull out and go on.

It was not a regular "shout," but some of them clapped their hands, and they stamped in time.

As an answer she could only shout back that a girl in an overturned punt was in far greater danger than she.